From owner-freebsd-ports Mon May 8 14:40: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4431437BCD3 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 14:40:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id OAA18415; Mon, 8 May 2000 14:40:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 14:40:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200005082140.OAA18415@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Matt Heckaman Subject: Re: ports/18454: Conflict: 'nedit' and 'netcat' ports. Reply-To: Matt Heckaman Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/18454; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Matt Heckaman To: Bill Fumerola Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/18454: Conflict: 'nedit' and 'netcat' ports. Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 17:38:01 -0400 (EDT) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 8 May 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote: [...] : I know. I shouldn't have been as blunt, but I think this issue has come up : before. Too many people are used to typing "nc". Ack. My bad. When I did the mailing list search it appears that I forgot to check "ports" as well as questions/stable. Now that I read back on the posts, I see that you are correct in that it was brought up before in Dec 1999. You're also right about too many people being used to typing "nc" [from archives] > Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 17:16:43 -0800 > From: "David O'Brien" > To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: editors/nedit vs. net/netcat > Message-ID: <20000102171643.A57182@dragon.nuxi.com> [...] > Nope. Netcat has been around alot longer than nedit, thus it is > installed as ``nc'' on Suns, HP's, etc.. already. `nc' is the name it > is known as, plain and simple. Plus netcat is often used in scripts, > which would break with a name change. > > Why not ask the Nedit people to pick a new name for `nc'? `nclient' or > something would be just fine. People demanding a shorter name can make > an alias. > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) This makes alot of sense and is most likely a much better solution. Either way it still needs to be implimented and most likely done on our side as I do not know how much luck there would be in talking the nedit people into changing it. Note: No offense intended in any way to anyone on the nedit team, it's a great editor. Matt Heckaman matt@arpa.mail.net http://www.lucida.qc.ca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://www.lucida.qc.ca/pgp iD8DBQE5FzO6dMMtMcA1U5ARAnG+AJ44FiWRR6BoatuVH2YAmeJYqYVT+QCgvzny 6HgkT/Pw3uy/zUusFQmUY0o= =xwg6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message